I'm a helpdesk employee and I'm working on my MCDST and really interested in learning about etical hacking. I've bought the CEH book, and I've been studying the first two chapters; but I just wanted everyone's opinion of what's the best place for me to start? I'm really eager to learn so I'll be happy for any respsonses

good advice when starting out is to read everything you can get your hads on. This site can be a good starting point, with links off to various other good sources.

Unless your Linux skills are great to start with you may want to download BackTrack to get some working tools. De-ice.net also have some nice virtual machines that you can use as target machines when starting to get your feet wet.

thanks for the advice. I'll read the two pinned threads. The thing I'm wanting to learn is how to hack company systems and after having hacked in being able to tighten up the security. that's my dream job. Internet Security. Which programming language is useful for that? thanks for all the welcomes

Last edited by alien8predator on Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Well i can understand your enthusiasm of hacking into your company systems ... but before you break into one .. make sure you have written permission to do so from a C-level executive or a very good lawyer.